16 Weeks

What a fun and busy week! We had Sydney's birthday party on Sunday, Josh's family came in to town on Saturday and stayed until Wednesday, Sydney's birthday was on Wednesday and Lexi rolled over from her back to tummy for the first time on 1/28/12.

Our pretty little girls

Sydney and her clown cake pop

Yummy!

Out to breakfast at the Pancake House for her birthday... Also, 1st time out with big girl undies

Sydney with Grandma and Papa Smith

Big kisses to Uncle Mac

Cheese :)

Grandpa & Lexi

Lexi & Uncle Mac

Blowing out her b-day candle

Digging in!

Just finished my big roll

Trying out the bouncer for the 1st time

Sydney - 2 Years Old!

I cannot believe how quickly our little girl is growing up! It seems like just the other day she was just a baby and now she is quite the toddler. She has been such a blessing to our lives and we enjoy every day we get to spend with her. She loves movies, books, running, twirling, baby dolls and her doll house. The past two years have been the best of our lives and we look forward to many, many more!

Favorites
Movies: Tangled, Aladdin & Beauty and the Beast
TV Show: Dora the Explorer
Books: Princess Books, Piggie & Elephant, Pigeon & Fancy Nancy
Songs: Gaston, A Whole New World, Row Row Row Your Boat, Twinkle Twinkle & Ring Around the Rosie

Pronunciation
Carly (Charlie)
Cerealalal (cereal)
Mercial (commercial)
Hunge (hungry)
Mind (mine)
Sqeez (squeeze)
Puter (computer)
Nastics (gymnastics)
Geen (green)
Daisy Lion (dandelion)
Gook light (nite night)... She can saw night light and flash light, but for some reason chooses to call it a Gook light

Here are the stats from her 2 year checkup (2/1/12)
Height: 35" (79.4% percentile)
Weight: 25 lbs (27% percentile)
Head Circumference: 18" (10% percentile)

Sydney's 2nd Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to our big girl!! We had a great birthday party for her on Sunday the 22nd and then celebrated her birthday with breakfast at The Original Pancake House and some family time today. Grandma and Grandma Smith and Uncle Mac came up from Ohio and all our family and friends came to our house for a Carnival Party. We had a clown who did face painting and balloon animals, a bounce house, all kinds of treats and pretty much utter chaos with 19 kids 5 and under! We had such a great time! ! Her birthday was also her 1st time going out with big girl undies on!

15 Weeks

Another busy week! It seems like the past month has been crazy... 1st with Sydney being sick and in the hospital, then the holidays, bridal showers, car accident, car shopping and getting ready for Sydney's big 2nd birthday party. I feel like I am so behind and haven't been taking very many pictures, so this week I tried to snap a few of Lexi as she is outgrowing all her 3-6mo outfits.

Lexi in her cute pink tracksuit sitting in the bumbo chair

Showing off a cute outfit she got from one of our very nice neighbors

Taking a taste of her new ball

Wearing her snowsuit on the way to the neighbors for a play date

This is the "I''m sick of you taking all these pictures of me and turn of that darn flash" look :)

Daddy and his girls watching a movie (probably Tangled as it is Sydney's new favorite)

Sydney's 1st haircut! Not so happy about it at first, but the sucker and the movie Princess and the frog helped :)

January in MN

A 60 degree change in temperature in 9 days...

14 Weeks

January has been off to an eventful busy and start. Sydney is back to school and swimming this past week and Amy was unfortunately involved in a pretty bad accident late Saturday night. She was heading home from Stillwater where she was having a friends bachelorette party, when a car crossed over in to her lane and hit her almost directly head on. Luckily she only had some minor injuries and is doing pretty well. Now we need to find a new car and quickly!

Alexis and Sydney hanging out in the playroom

Big sister love :)

Lexi is really starting to like playing with her toys and can reach and grasp quite well

Sydney sending all her dolls for a ride down the slide

Our cutie-pie!

Sydney found a plastic bag and decided to have her own potato sack race

Sweet little Lexi Lou

Peaking out of her car seat waiting for her PT session

Amy's X5 after the accident :(

Alexis's 1st dip in the pool